Want to know if you won? Take a peek below:
Hooray for Holly and Katherine! Please send me an email (charlottesfancy[at]gmail[dot]com) with your mailing address so I can get the goodies to you.
To everyone else: thank you for taking a chance! Don’t forget that you can get the Egg Press calendars and planners at Target (my local Target had a few of them left!) and some other designs on the Blue Sky website.
Egg Press and Blue Sky have teamed up again for the third year to offer a range of calendars that are primarily available at Target stores (not online), and there’s a smaller selection on the Blue Sky website. Egg Press is easily one of my favorite letterpress printers, and it’s nice to see their designs continue to reach a wider audience.
I scoped out some the designs/sizes for those of you who still need a 2013 calendar.
The large, 22″ x 17″ dots calendar is designed as a deskpad calendar (does anyone still have a desk blotter?), but I plan to tear off each month – it’s perforated – and post it to my fridge to keep my family organized. It’s definitely my favorite because the size really suits my needs.
The 15″ x 12″ spring flowers wall calendar with spiral binding would work just as well to organize your family – plenty of space to note your appointments, birthdays and other calendar entries.
The 11″ x 14″ art calendar is really elegant. It’s the kind of calendar that you don’t want to write on (although there’s room to jot notes). You just want to enjoy how pretty it looks on your wall.
And the 5″ x 8″ planner with the roses design and orange cover is cute and super convenient – small enough to carry in your bag, but big enough to be able to read your handwriting! (The orange is a bit darker than it appears in this photo,)
These are just four, but there are several more designs in varying sizes/formats. You have to make a visit to Target to find them and hope that they’re not sold out – or you could snatch up one of the designs on the Blue Sky website.
OR, you can hope to win one from me! I’m offering the 5″ x 8″ planner and the art calendar to two lucky winners.
All you have to do is leave a comment in the comments section below – feel free to tell me which one you like best – by Friday, January 11 at 11:59 pm EST. I will pick two winners at random.
Since I am paying for shipping, this giveaway is open to the US and Canada only. (Sorry to all of my other international readers and friends!)
Good luck!
Images:
Blue Sky(top photo)
Charlotte’s Fancy (all others)
Congrats, Patricia! The paper doilies are coming to Argentina! Thanks to all who left me a comment. You can order these doilies online from the Royal Lace website. You might also be able to find them in a grocery store, craft store, or party supply store.
Image: Charlotte’s Fancy
Today, by chance, I ran across the mother lode of the right kind of doilies (i.e. Royal Lace brand) for dyeing – the ones that are lace throughout and don’t have a solid paper middle – which aren’t easy to find in local craft shops.
Since this blog post on how to dye paper doilies and a follow up post with tips for dyeing doilies are among my most popular posts, I want to give thanks by offering a pack of the doilies to one of my readers.
To win, please leave me a comment below, telling me what you plan to do with the dyed doilies, and I will randomly draw a winner. The deadline is Friday, April 27th at 5:00 pm (EST). This giveaway is open to everyone and is not limited to just the United States.
Thanks for reading Charlotte’s Fancy. I am grateful you’re here.
#3 – loveandpoppy! I will be sending a package of envelopes your way soon.
Thanks to all of you for your kind comments this week. I read and appreciate every comment I get.
image: Charlotte’s Fancy
Abbey Hendrickson of Aesthetic Outburst creates 20 handmade items in 20 days and then gives them all away. (She also makes extras of some projects for her shop.) I really adore every single thing she makes.
See her 20 in 20 Christmas edition and her 20 in 20 valentines. Here are the current 20 in 20 creations, which I look forward to discovering in my blog reader every day:
Day 6
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
Day 2
Day 1
Abbey’s blog is a treasure trove of creative inspiration. Definitely a favorite of mine.
Images: Abbey Hendrickson/Aesthetic Outburst
Congratulations…
Gwen and Sarah, please email your mailing addresses to charlottesfancy [at] gmail [dot] com.
For those of you who would like your own Egg Press/Blue Sky planner and you can’t find them at Target, you can also buy them directly from the Blue Sky website.
A couple of links to keep you company for the weekend:
– How Children Give Parents the Power to Change (from the Evidence Based Mummy blog). I found this article to be so interesting and positive.
– Ingredient Magazine is a new print magazine for kids ages 6 – 12 who are curious about food and interested in cooking. I’ve got one of those! She’s 7 and loves to help in the kitchen. Most of her Christmas presents revolved around cooking (cookbooks, apron, oven mitts, etc.), so I subscribed, and I’m looking forward to seeing our first issue. (Via Ohdeedoh)
Happy weekend!
Egg Press has recently released a collection of planners and calendars through Blue Sky, which is available at your local Target as well as the Blue Sky website.
I’ve received a few samples, and my favorite is the Blue X 8.5″ x 11″ weekly/monthly planner. I like the larger format planner (plenty of space to write down your appointments and birthdays and also to jot copious notes), but you may like the smaller planners (still with plenty of space to write) that fit more easily in your bag.
The desk calendar is cute too.
I noticed at my Target the other day that many of the calendars and planners were already sold, which is great news for Egg Press. I hope that people who are buying Egg Press/Blue Sky items are discovering Egg Press’ letterpress work, which is truly special.
I’m giving away Burst planners (see the two planners in the middle of the above photo) to two lucky winners. Both are 5 x 8″, one is casebound (blue) and one is spiral bound. Wanna throw your hat in the ring? (Of course you do!) Leave me a comment below by midnight on Thursday, and I will announce the winners on Friday.
Since I’m paying for the shipping costs, this is open to US and Canada addresses only.
Good luck!
Congratulations to…Vicki and Danielle! You each win one 2011 calendar by Flowers in May! I will email you today for details.
And now for the extra good news!
Emily is offering a 15% discount in her shop to Charlotte’s Fancy readers through next Wednesday, November 24th! Enter the code NOV2010 to get your discount.
You know how you all said it was so hard to choose between her prints, and how you liked her buttons and calendar? Now’s the time to choose! These make perfect holiday gifts and you will be supporting an independent artist, too.
Thanks to everyone who entered and also to Emily / Flowers in May for this great giveaway!
Didn’t I say I was going to have a giveaway this week? Well, it’s time!
Who needs a 2011 calendar? I bet most of you do, which is great because my friend Emily Dumas, the talented designer behind Flowers in May, is offering two of her calendars to Charlotte’s Fancy readers. How great is that?
You might remember Emily’s fun prints, which I featured back in August – here’s my favorite
(I think – it’s really hard to choose a favorite!):
Paris, I Love You
It feels like you’re going on a treasure hunt as you look at all of the little illustrations that make up each print. Her calendar is like that too.
Have a look:
So here’s what you have to do now:
To enter this giveaway, please have a look at Emily’s shop and tell me in the comments section below what your favorite item is. For a bonus entries, you can tweet or blog about it and let me know in the comments. You have until next Tuesday, November 16, to enter.
Two lucky winners will be chosen at random, and I will announce them here on Wednesday, the 17th.
Good luck!
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